Yes, the Church acts slowly for the ages. But we live in days and years. A long time ago, we had to choose to live in the days God has given us--and not wait for the Church to straighten things out. Otherwise, our children would likely not be practicing Catholics today.

With respect, the Vatican can act with amazing speed when it perceives that the situation requires it: Archbishop Lefebvre sanctae memoriae performed his ordinations at Econe on June 30th 1988, the Vatican published Ecclesia Dei two days later on 2nd July. There is a lesson here.

Rome, Feb. 26, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Father Gianfranco Ravasi, a noted Biblical scholar from Milan, has been chosen by Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) to write the meditations for this year’s Way of the Cross on Good Friday in the Roman Coliseum.